so beautiful..love this improvisation very much 🌺

einfach nur wunderschön und magisch! Ich finde es wunderbar, dass du immer noch deine Musik hier teilst nach all den Jahren, David! :)

I'm calling this a "Concerto" because the cello is the featured player against the orchestra, and "Fantasia" because it seems appropriate: many sweeping melodic themes, no discernable structure, and not part of a larger work

 Produced for the Composer Contests Facebook group Melody challenge -- all the melodies consist of six notes: C, C#, Eb, F#, G, and A.

Painting by Paul Gauguin.

Concerto Fantasia On Six Notes for Cello and Orchestra

Melted blue

Passing By

If you would like to see examples of advanced flute composition and performance....time better spent (better spent in any event) listening to Franck Douvin's 'Anima'... best work for flute I have heard. Link to it on Soundcloud is:
https://soundcloud.com/franckdouvin/anima-for-solo-flute-new-2023-live-recording 

A better known work by Douvin is his 1st Concerto for Flute & Orchestra Opus 24, for which the link on soundcloud is:
https://soundcloud.com/franckdouvin/kedros-my-first-concerto-for-flute-orchestra-opus-24-new-flute-part-2023-live-recording-1

Flute and Orchestra

Reminiscent of the French composer Erik Satie
Special thanks to David Dunham @david-dunhamuser589535203 for his generous help in mastering my track.

SATIE*ESQUE

Look around... everything comes back to disappear again... like clouds in the sky…
I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation "Cloud Rondo".
The sheet music of some of my compositions can be downloaded from my website https://pianoimprovictor.com/ Some new works are available on  https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/victor-birkan-sheet-music/3028943?isPLP=1
Find all my music here: https://linktr.ee/victorbirkan

Cloud Rondo - Improvised Piano Piece

Hibernia

Waterfall (Guitar solo)

Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787.

Madamina, il catalogo è questo" (also known as the Catalogue Aria) is a bass catalogue aria,  sung by Don Giovanni's servant Leporello.
Here transcribed for baritone.

piano accompaniment: Helen Roberts
baritone: Robert Llewellyn

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Lyrics:

Madamina, il catalogo è questo
Delle belle che amò il padron mio;
un catalogo egli è che ho fatt'io;
Osservate, leggete con me.

In Italia seicento e quaranta;
In Alemagna duecento e trentuna;
Cento in Francia, in Turchia novantuna;
Ma in Ispagna son già mille e tre.

V'han fra queste contadine,
Cameriere, cittadine,
V'han contesse, baronesse,
Marchesane, principesse.
E v'han donne d'ogni grado,
D'ogni forma, d'ogni età.

Nella bionda egli ha l'usanza
Di lodar la gentilezza,
Nella bruna la costanza,
Nella bianca la dolcezza.

Vuol d'inverno la grassotta,
Vuol d'estate la magrotta;
È la grande maestosa,
La piccina è ognor vezzosa.

Delle vecchie fa conquista
Pel piacer di porle in lista;
Sua passion predominante
È la giovin principiante.

Non si picca – se sia ricca,
Se sia brutta, se sia bella;
Purché porti la gonnella,
Voi sapete quel che fa.

English:

My dear lady, this is the list
Of the beauties my master has loved,
A list which I have compiled.
Observe, read along with me.

In Italy, six hundred and forty;
In Germany, two hundred and thirty-one;
A hundred in France; in Turkey, ninety-one;
But in Spain already one thousand and three.

Among these are peasant girls,
Maidservants, city girls,
Countesses, baronesses,
Marchionesses, princesses,
Women of every rank,
Every shape, every age.

With blondes it is his habit
To praise their kindness;
In brunettes, their faithfulness;
In the white-haired, their sweetness.

In winter he likes fat ones.
In summer he likes thin ones.
He calls the tall ones majestic.
The little ones are always charming.

He seduces the old ones
For the pleasure of adding to the list.
His greatest favourite
Is the young beginner.

It doesn't matter if she's rich,
Ugly or beautiful;
If she wears a skirt,
You know what he does.

Madamina, Il Catalogo È Questo (Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

The Loss Of An Unknown Friend is an orchestral composition that sets the tone for the WWI-themed game 'No Mans Land.' With its mournful piano and powerful strings, it captures the essence of camaraderie and loss in the trenches.

The Loss Of An Unknown Friend

Suncycle (Slowed and Reverb v3)

A new piano sound is here to be explored: the Vertical Concert Grand Klavins M450i. An Everest of sound, a friend commented - she may be right... :-)

Our Una Corda piano has been sampled and is available as a VSTi at Native Instruments - they did a great job, it's fascinating! Also take a look at The Giant from NI, the VSTi of our Model 370 vertical concert grand piano...

Love to express myself on the keyboard now and then, only improvising... sometimes it works out, sometimes not - like real life... :-) Actually I'm a piano builder, not a pianist... ;-)

I'm recording mostly using the Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S88 keyboard, Reaper for DAW, and various Native Instruments sound libraries, sometimes live on the Una Corda.

Wish I had more time to explore all the fine musicians here - it's fascinating, always something new and inspirational to find, within the infinite world of music..!

Please be patient with me in case I'm not replying on your comments short term - I'm extremely busy building pianos... I definitely appreciate your remarks, ideas, suggestions, and will get back to you as I can afford..!

Having been on SC since April 2012, I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who contributes to this wonderful world of music - all the friends I've made here, and the SC-Team as well..!!

Dave

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